Kar­ish­ma Ramharack hit a half-cen­tu­ry and claimed a five-wick­et haul as the T&T women’s crick­et team de­feat­ed Bar­ba­dos by 89 runs in the sec­ond and fi­nal 50-Over match at the North Stars Club, Crab Hill in St Lucy in Bar­ba­dos to sweep the se­ries

The vis­i­tors were all out for 207 be­fore re­mov­ing the host team, 118/9 be­fore the match was called off as T&T sealed back-to-back wins in the 50-over warmup se­ries. On Fri­day af­ter­noon, T&T won the open­er by 44 runs.

It was the fourth meet­ing be­tween the teams as they have al­ready squared off in two T20 en­coun­ters in the five-match se­ries which is split in­to three T20 and two 50-Over match­es at var­i­ous venues in Bar­ba­dos as both teams pre­pare for the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) 50-over and T20 Blaze in Guyana in June. Bar­ba­dos is al­so warm­ing up for the Birm­ing­ham Com­mon­wealth Games in Eng­land from Ju­ly 28-Au­gust 8.

T&T bat­ted first and cap­tain Re­niece Boyce (27), stead­ied the ship ear­ly on as Lee Ann Kir­by (23) moved the score along but it was the left-hand­ed Ramharack, who was the main­stay of the in­ning with her 55 runs to help T&T to a de­cent 207 in 45.1 overs.

Ri­an­na Good­ing Forte (2/21) and Krisanne How­ell (2/25) were the main wick­et-tak­ers for the host team.

Kyshona Knight (45) and Nai­jan­ni Cum­ber­batch (33) looked com­fort­able at the crease in Bar­ba­dos’ re­ply un­til right-arm off-break bowler Ramharack struck, im­pres­sive­ly pick­ing up five wick­ets for 13 runs. Off-spin­ner Steffie Soogrim was T&T’s next best with 1/15 hold­ing the Bar­ba­di­ans to 118/9 in 36.5 overs, end­ing the pro­ceed­ings.

On Sun­day, pac­er Kir­by­i­na Alexan­der and Soogrim picked up two wick­ets each to help T&T de­feat Bar­ba­dos in an­oth­er T20 match, this time at Iso­la­tion Cav­a­liers, Lakes, and St An­drew on Sun­day. The vis­it­ing T&T se­cured a sev­en-wick­et win.

The Bar­ba­di­ans were hop­ing to bounce back from their four-wick­et de­feat in the open­ing T20 match at the Ru­bis Sports Club in Spring Gar­den, St Michael on Thurs­day.

The host coun­try just as in the open­er bat­ted first and in their 20 overs post­ed a score of 128/6 with Ky­cia Knight lead­ing the bat­ting with a half-cen­tu­ry (60) while Aaliyah Al­leyne stayed for a while at the crease but lost her wick­et for 35.

T&T’s right-arm pace bowler Alexan­der (2/21) and left-arm off-spin­ner Soogrim (2/28) did well to re­strict the Bar­ba­dos bat­ting line-up.

In re­ply, T&T on­ly need­ed 15.5 overs to reach the win­ning tar­get of 129/3, thanks to Shenelle Lord with an un­beat­en 33, Rachel Vin­cent’s 27 and Kir­by with 26 not out.

How­ell was the top bowler for Bar­ba­dos pick­ing up 2/18 while her team­mate Shani­ka Bruce was again among the wick­ets, claim­ing 1/29. In the first T20, she sealed 2/29 in a los­ing ef­fort.

The teams were sched­uled to re­turn to ac­tion yes­ter­day (Mon­day) in the sec­ond 50-over match at the North Stars Club, Crab Hill in St Lucy with T&T aim­ing to sweep that se­ries af­ter win­ning the open­ing 50-over by 44 runs on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

The third and fi­nal T20 clash is set for to­mor­row at the Po­lice Sports Club, Wey­mouth, St Michael, at 2 pm.